Having lost to the visitors in last season’s semi-final, Glen Chapple’s men have now beaten them home and away in the space of five days.

And they completed the double in style last night, as they impressively chased down a daunting target of 180 with six balls to spare and eight wickets in hand, smashing seven sixes and 14 boundaries in the process.

Moore led the way with 54 off 32 balls as he and Tom Smith put on 75 for the first wicket in just seven overs. The former Worcestershire batsman has now bludgeoned six half-centuries in eight one-day innings this season.

Once Smith went for 42 off 31 deliveries, Karl Brown (39) and Steven Croft (41) put on an unbeaten 67-run stand off just 39 balls to secure victory and set a new record for the highest run chase by a Lancashire side in Twenty20 cricket at Old Trafford.

“It was a fantastic win,” said Stephen Moore. “Twenty20 cricket is rewriting what you can and can’t do in terms of runs scored, but 180 is a daunting target.

“It was a tough chase but the way the boys played didn’t make it look as tough as it was. It was a world-class effort from the guys.”

Lancashire looked to be coasting to victory after the first five overs of the match as they reduced Leicestershire to 29-3.

Skipper Glen Chapple led the way, writing his name in the Red Rose record books yet again. He claimed the wickets of Greg Smith and Ramnaresh Sarwen and conceded just 10 runs – the most economical figures by a Lancashire player bowling four overs in this form of the game.

“I bowled it straight and the figures looked after themselves,” said Chapple. “You can bowl well and still go for a few runs in this form of the game. I didn’t get nicked and go for streaky fours and I think by the end they possible decided to just bat me back knowing it was my last over.”

The Foxes hit just two boundaries in the first 10 overs, but made amends in the second half of their innings as they finished on 179-4.

Abdul Razzaq, who almost single-handedly won the group game at Old Trafford between the two sides last season, threatened to do it again as he smashed 61 from 51 balls, while Matthew Boyce made a quick-fire 63 as he and Wayne Wright put on 58 off the final 21 balls.

And although their total was a good 20 runs more than they should have made, it still wasn’t enough to keep Lancashire’s on-fire top order at bay.

“The run-chase was faultless really,” added Chapple, whose side host Nottinghamshire at Old Trafford tomorrow night. “Our top order are firing really well. The big thing in this competition is getting off to a good start. There are a few less games in the group stage than last year, so you can’t afford a slow start. We would have taken two wins from our opening three games before we started and now we need to press on from here.”